Hey everybody. Welcome to the Muckrake podcast, Weekender Edition, for Patrons exclusive for all of you listening at home, sampling this. Get on the train. Get the extra episode, get the extra perks over at patreon.com slash muckrake podcast. I'm Jared D.8 Sexton here with Nick Halsemann.

Nick, I'm going to loosen up for the weekend.

All right.

And I'm not just going to open a beer.

Oh.

Oh, yeah.

You're pouring it into a glass.

Why do you hate America, Jared?

Because today we have so much bullshit to talk about Nick.

So to go ahead and give people a preview of what we have to deal with today.

And actually, I'm just going to take a drink to steal myself.

My God, we got to talk about Tucker Carlson in Hungary.

We got to talk about people have been writing, asking Jared, when are you going to

talk about J.D. Vance on the Muckrakech podcast? And I have to tell you, my beloved listeners,

today is the day that we are talking about J.D. Vance on the Muckrake podcast. We got to talk about

that senatorial candidate J.D. Vance. Oh, God.

Oh, Nick, that's insane my stomach hurt.

Oh, God, what a disaster.

We're going to talk about terrible history on Fox News because who else does terrible

history like Fox News?

But again, we're going to give you a vantage point on all of this that other people are afraid to because, quite frankly, it's horrifying.

But, Nick, we have to start with our good friend Tucker, Swanson, Carlson, the fourth, Esquire bullshit.

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